Re: [dev] Re: Starch has a web site

2012-12-08 Thread lordkrandel
On 08/12/2012 15:26, Strake wrote: The forum could be a mere sticky directory, which would allow all normal forumnal activities. The difficulty is how to share it: the only user ID is the server's, so UID checks are in vain; even with 9p, which can authenticate a remote user, it must then set its

Re: [dev] Re: Starch has a web site

2012-12-08 Thread Strake
On 08/12/2012, lordkrandel wrote: > On 08/12/2012 05:30, Kai Hendry wrote: >> Stick to a mailing list with Web archives. > > I've always thought that forums, bbs and mailing lists are > "plain old hierarchical filesystems" gone astray. These tools represent > bad implementations of written communi

Re: [dev] Re: Starch has a web site

2012-12-07 Thread lordkrandel
On 08/12/2012 05:30, Kai Hendry wrote: Stick to a mailing list with Web archives. I've always thought that forums, bbs and mailing lists are "plain old hierarchical filesystems" gone astray. These tools represent bad implementations of written communication between users. Imagine threads as

Re: [dev] Re: Starch has a web site

2012-12-07 Thread Kai Hendry
That forum at http://starchlinux.org/Forum/ is particularly bad. Stick to a mailing list with Web archives.

Re: [dev] Re: Starch has a web site

2012-12-07 Thread Strake
On 07/12/2012, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > forums and the plural is "fora".

[dev] Re: Starch has a web site

2012-12-07 Thread Strake
On 07/12/2012, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > it asked me if tux is cute and after I answered it isn't the web site > said I'm a robot. please just go on using mailing lists. forums (and > most other web shit) suck. Try now (^_~)

Re: [dev] Re: Starch has a web site

2012-12-07 Thread hiro
it asked me if tux is cute and after I answered it isn't the web site said I'm a robot. please just go on using mailing lists. forums (and most other web shit) suck. On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 3:20 AM, Strake wrote: > On 07/12/2012, Hugues Moretto-Viry wrote: >> A lightweight forum could be useful t

[dev] Re: Starch has a web site

2012-12-07 Thread Strake
On 07/12/2012, Hugues Moretto-Viry wrote: > A lightweight forum could be useful too. I agree. Ergo, I added one. http://starchlinux.org/Forum/

Re: [dev] Re: Starch has a web site

2012-12-07 Thread Hugues Moretto-Viry
2012/12/6 Strake > > Well, we have none yet, but we have a few options: > > * Mailing list > My preferred, but as the site is on someone else's server, and > unfortunately I had to delegate them the whole domain, this may be > difficult. > > * werc bridge > Tried it; not sure how to configure it.

[dev] Re: Starch has a web site

2012-12-06 Thread Strake
Julian Dammann wrote: > What's a 9p feed? that I serve my news directory over 9p (^_~) Truls Becken wrote: > Where should discussions take place? > The home page does not mention any community links. Well, we have none yet, but we have a few options: * Mailing list My preferred, but as the site

Re: [dev] Re: Starch has a web site

2012-12-06 Thread Julian Dammann
> Maybe a 9p feed. What's a 9p feed? (I google'd - no luck)

[dev] Re: Starch has a web site

2012-12-06 Thread Strake
Hugues Moretto-Viry wrote: > Dude, I can tell you I'm very interested about this project. > I will follow you. > Good work! Thanks! James Christopher Hogg wrote: > I am interested too. > If you'll avoid systemd, dbus and similar stuff, I'll think about > contribution. Like the plague. Prakhar